Deepak Chopra Instagram – #AskDeepak “I’ve been working to clear negative thought patterns on a moment-to-moment basis for the past 7 years.  It’s amazing how entrenched some of this stuff is.  Why does the ego cling so hard to the negativity?” My response: It takes time for this old conditioning to fully dissipate from the mind/body system.  The ego clings to these old patterns because the ego is actually made out of this activity of resistance and avoidance.  This desperate mental activity is what we call negativity. But as you let your awareness rest in the background presence of Being, while the negativity continues on its own, it will eventually fade away like mist in the morning sun.  Don’t resist it, or try to push it away—that is just the ego mind engaging with another part of the ego mind.  Simply be that awareness that knows, thinks, and experiences everything, and that consciousness will automatically take care of all the healing and understanding that needs to happen. Love, Deepak